Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-22
WASHINGTON.
The Inter State Commerce Commits
sion on The Commission Business,
The CompIaiaanta Dismissed.
The Form OF Tickets Gnd Manner Of
E0eir Sale Matters OF Agreement
Between Connecting Lines.
The President Returns to Washington and
AT OnCo Goes To Work Unusual Num-
bcr OF Foreign Travellers.
INrrPsrATE COMMERCE..

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IONS "ei7 io""o1o" ~ 'A0 1I''A > "a -
commerce commission today Inc
most important was the one In relation TO
+ae nsv,na~. If commissions nv one road
IS - 49,, o.,,,oo,:,,,
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IOADs Iy- SdIC2 "a through '.1Aet'' Inc
points II dispute grew out ct the commits
sion All anti commission t4lt between
the 5ea5oaTd trunk INES ana some OF
their western connections
The following three cases were dIs-
posed oi IN one opinion; CLcago ana
Alton R5iifoaQ Company vs.. the Penn
sylvanla Company the same vs.. the
Pennsylvania Railroad CompanTl the
Chicago ROCK island Snd racine
Railroad Company ys. the New York
Central and HuGsoa River h2llro2o com
ra2y. Ihe following synopsis contains
the more important points Oh me oplDloA
when Is very -OL- me
complains IN Laese cases are loulutu
upon the lAifo seCEon q 'i1 act
20 regulate coulaefce SHo easI9e me VIC
lA-oI VI t-AI 'o-Ilu of uo'eu"au ~ 80
pailes u L,-L'lnE Certain "a 'lii lTiS
Ter receiving loi "a!ullS ana HeiI'-
eIln- passengers 10 Inc Colu .'4A-l-l-Lls
Inc consist h~ on VAIoGS1 |I Cou upon
TICKETS RA-ch oelnS cHatao Vo otueE
eL~ c--1.e,.u% CoAp4Hl9E' S5T
the tohpta -J@1LS u-e@e' UE-
cue eno u.Feas0uao'e prefer enc
20 nose ouLi.l.s-ios' Lo --l''l laol1
found ~ me C1l-l"i'5 sion 1lS IeC'.0u q.
.en&.a' Ia Tie lp'nIaA 'A-Y suo" tA"I
lgr several years p-i,i 10 Tie ti-1G WIZ
the &C. 10 re- ul--e LI,lsiC.5 ,ooN eA9C1
-uos-lD ally g! the ra''o@H coMp&nles
OF lle country lu-IuiIh- lAe CouP.AI
ants ana oeield-2Ls PAD colAiaI9'io15'
The o-ichaalJ comps. i'- anu aoiA1 o,i!5.s
lcr ABOUT Two years nave l.slS earnest
en- - @"--t tlt H'7l .c5 81 l-s-
ms ca,hil-ss n. aD2uU HoIsn
before .aa az u re- ut--e Co-.l...'',- .c-
came Cp-it .fe1 me oele'-,lALl C9tl l'ais.s7
TOOK steps 60 l'-ocGI@ en- e~s-- mem WI" VIZ
tne-- coALtcl1I CONF 'h'eS 80 @Jo-isa
tas comlIssioh business sAos7tlsf.
Win this era ii V-e"' Ihey
sent printed CHcuIaE on OF EyON.
the 10TH CT March last 10 lhClr connecting
companies expressing lheiF "!IHuSu ness
/ to contInle 70 act as agents IN the sale 81
T Through Hekets, ana sLaLhg nature OF
the Egreement. The circular OF
the defendant companies contained
a condition promoting the payment Oh
commissions by other companies 10 thef
agents The complainant companies re-
fused to enter into the agreement pro
posed. ON account CT their refusal the
defendants, after the tn OF April last,
refused to sell through tickets over
the compsalnants' roads from Cnlcag0 ana
st. Louis 10 Kansas Clty ana sun refuse
solely Tor those reasons. On THESE lacts
the cOmplainantS aVeT th&t the
defendants refuse to afford them
reasonable, proper anG equal taClil-
ties for receiving, forwarding
and delivering passengers ana give Endue
preference 10 competing ROADS u C}1tTS-
vgntI0n q the PROVISIONS OF the act %
regulate commerce, Inc defendants
deny that they hSye violated the
provisions Of the act SID claim
they have exclusively The right
t. c0n'r2. their agents, TO fix the amount
OF lh,ir compensation snd to paw then
Themselves: that the payment Of
commissions by ether companies
Is deworsliLng 10 Llsr agents, and
often leads II discrimination "a
p5sraugers for roads paIng large
commissions by q divisions Of the com
mission between the agent and the pas
s-ngers: the. the commission consumes
considerable CT 81 per centaga Of revenue
from tine sale Of through tick
cts. thct Without the c0mmfs- ION
afI corrrcrtnu roads stand on q hseis oi
equaljry aud passengers select tbatr own